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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 15, 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Rose Philadelphia Gains an Award. 
—The R. N.-Y. premium rose, Philadel¬ 
phia Rambler, received an Award of 
Merit at the late Temple Show of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, London, 
England. The London Gardener’s Chron¬ 
icle. June 3, 1905, publishes this note con¬ 
cerning the variety: 
Itoso, Philadephia kambler.—A climbing 
variety resembling Crimson Rambler, save 
that the flower is of a much richer type, the 
color being (lark scarlet. The flower is also 
of more substance than the older variety. 
Shown by Hobbies Co., Ltd., Dereham, Eng. 
Award of merit. 
It is gratifying that this splendid hardy 
rose is able to bold its own far from 
home in competition with the grandest 
roses of the world. Many of our readers 
will doubtless see blooms of Philadelphia 
for the first this season. Beautiful as are 
the highly finished flowers on young 
plants, the full effect is only seen when 
well-established and blooming on canes 
several feet high. 
The Northern Range of the Live- 
Oak. —The following note from Prof. W. 
F. Massey of the North Carolina Experi¬ 
ment Station is self-explanatory. Prof. 
Massey is of course thoroughly acquaint¬ 
ed with the flora of the Southern Atlantic 
States: 
W. V. F. says that the Live oak will not 
survive the Winter north of Charleston. Ir 
he will come here we will show him some 
fine old specimens, and they are common all 
over eastern North Carolina. The northern 
limit of the natural growth of Live oak is at 
Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Va., where 
they are plentiful, and some inside the fort. 
A Beautiful New Pillar Rose. —In 
Fig. 222, first page, we have a not very 
successful portrait of one of the finest 
seedlings of Rosa Wichuraiana raised on 
the Rural Grounds; the result of crossing 
Wichuraiana with Souvenir du President 
Carnot, a highly finished light colored 
Hybrid Tea rose of French origin. The 
buds and bloom shown in the picture 
are reduced in size, the flowers often 
exceeding four inches in diameter in the 
natural state. The plant is very hardy, 
having withstood the last two severe 
Winters without the slightest protection, 
with the loss of only a small proportion 
of late-grown wood. It is a strong and 
luxuriant grower, with broad, shining foli¬ 
age and very thick canes growing eight or 
more feet high in a season. The flowers 
are semi-double, very light rosy-flesh in 
color—about the shade of Daybreak car¬ 
nation—and produced in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion over a long season in June and 
July both singly and in clusters of three 
to five. The stems are very long for a 
hardy rose of this type, many exceeding 
two feet in length, making it an extreme¬ 
ly desirable variety for cutting. The vig¬ 
orous habit of the plant, the large and 
lustrous dark green foliage, great size, 
delicate coloring and high finish of the 
bloom, with their long graceful stems, 
mark this “Daybreak Rambler,” as it 
Falls man claims to have produced potatoes 
without vines and to be able to supply new 
potatoes for the market at any season. To¬ 
day he exhibited to several persons the box 
in which he has conducted his experiments, 
containing potatoes in various stages of 
growth, and those who were invited to make 
the inspection are much impressed. The in¬ 
ventor has conducted his experiments in a 
box. In this there is a steam coil, heating 
the contents of the box. lie states that he 
has succeeded in perfecting a compound re¬ 
sembling soil. In a layer of this compound 
he plants potato eyes and on top of the first 
layer there is another with more potato eyes, 
and so on until the box is full. He claims 
that the potatoes grow in this compound, that 
all growth, is in tubers, and that it is not nec¬ 
essary for either light or air to reach the 
potatoes. 
Every farmer knows that potatoes 
stored in dark and cool cellars until after 
planting season is over may show a ten¬ 
dency to produce small tubers on short 
stems without the aid of the usual leaf 
and root system, which is unable to de¬ 
velop under suNi conditions, and also at 
times to form new potatoes within their 
substance. Such freaks have been illustrat¬ 
ed in past numbers of The R. N.-Y., not¬ 
ably on first page of the issue for April 
13, 1901. This direct tuber reproduction 
is only owe of Nature’s efforts to continue 
the species under adverse circumstances, 
when the. cell life of the old potato is 
about to expire, and natural growth is 
thwarted. A potato tuber is really a 
thickened portion of root stock in a dor¬ 
mant condition, stored with materials 
suited to nourish a new plant, and fur¬ 
nished with buds or “eyes,” ready to 
grow under the proper stimuli of warmth, 
moisture and eventually light. When 
these are denied and conditions do not al¬ 
ready destroy the life of the protoplasm in 
the potato structure the effort for develop¬ 
ment takes the form of direct tuber or 
new potato formation. Certain other tub¬ 
ers and corms of solid consistency will 
do the same if kept out of the ground 
much beyond the usual planting time. 
All bulb handlers have noticed how read¬ 
ily new corms form on the top of the old 
ones when Crocuses and Gladioli arc 
stored beyond the usual season. We mis¬ 
laid some ripe corms of the scarce and 
beautiful Gladiolus princeps during Win¬ 
ter and were not able to find them until 
late next Summer. New and solid corms 
had formed without an attempt at leaf 
growth. The substance of the old ones 
had nearly all been transferred into the 
new growths. When planted the follow¬ 
ing year these Gladioli, after having been 
out of the soil for IS months, had so re¬ 
newed their vitality that entirely normal 
flower spikes were produced'at the usual 
time. Few varieties have such vigorous 
constitution as Gladiolus princeps, but the 
effort to continue life in bulbous plants 
when proper growing conditions are with¬ 
held is far from uncommon. 
Cellar New Potatoes Not Novelties. 
—The steam coil box and “compound re¬ 
sembling soil” of the Montana man may 
be dismissed as frills of the reporter. New 
potatoes from caves and cellars are no 
novelty, though the idea of thus rejuve¬ 
nating surplus old potatoes has more than 
once been trotted out in Europe as a 
"new potato culture” of great value. The 
little tubers formed about the old ones in 
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A “New” Potato Culture. —The fol¬ 
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Great Falls (Mont.). June 12.—A Great 
but have tolerable quality when cooked. 
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